Using timestamps would address my needs.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason van Zyl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 1:38 PM
> To: Turbine Maven Developers List
> Subject: RE: Update
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 14:26, Quinton McCombs wrote:
> > I think this has been discussed before but why can't we have 
> > commons-collections-2.1-SNAPSHOT?  There are some projects 
> which will 
> > have multiple development versions.  Torque, for example, has 3.0.1 
> > and 3.1.
> 
> Because snapshot means approximately HEAD (or whatever the 
> equivalent is in other SCMs). I figured the the current 
> version as part of the snapshot denotation was misleading. 
> Even if you have development versions those are in fact 
> releases and should not use snapshots. Or if they are going 
> on at the same time and haven't been released then you should 
> just use a timestamp.
> 
> If I'm not understanding you correctly feel free to make 
> additional comments.
> 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Jason van Zyl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 1:18 PM
> > > To: Turbine Maven Developers List
> > > Subject: Re: Update
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 11:36, Stéphane Mor wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > >     look e.g. at the commons-collections directory. There is
> > > > > 
> > > > >       commons-collections-2.0.20020914.015953
> > > > >       commons-collections-2.0.20020914.020746
> > > > >       commons-collections-2.0.20020914.020858
> > > > >       commons-collections-2.1-dev.jar
> > > > > 
> > > > >     which one should commons-collections-SNAPSHOT map to? IMHO
> > > > >     it maps to the wrong version. 2.1-dev is newer than
> > > > > 2.0.<something>
> > > > > 
> > > >
> > > > Patches welcome.
> > > 
> > > I missed this one. Patches aren't needed. When a snapshot is
> > > deployed a mapping created which creates a pointer:
> > > 
> > 
> http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/commons-> jelly/jars/commons-jelly-snapshot
> > -version
> > 
> > So the version stated in that file is what the snapshot 
> corresponds to 
> > if you wish to resolve it.
> > 
> > I made a tool for the last maven release that uses these 
> mappings to 
> > interactively resolve all snapshots in a project.xml file. You can 
> > actually do this interactively or just let maven go to town 
> and do it 
> > for you.
> > 
> > We are actually trying to build things too, we realize 
> snapshots can 
> > be hazardous to your health but we know that. We have tried 
> to make snapshots convenient to use during development and 
> easy to resolve for release.
> -- 
> jvz.
> 
> Jason van Zyl
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